Walker: 'Focus on mental-health status' to prevent gun violence

7:23 AM,
Jan. 17, 2013

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Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday stressed an emphasis on mental health to prevent mass shootings like the recent slaughter of elementary students at a Connecticut elementary school.

"The focus should be on mental-health status," Walker said when asked about stricter gun-control measures proposed Wednesday by the Obama administration. The governor said some people "will look at extreme measures" to prevent violence, but that "a consistent theme (among perpetrators) is someone who has fallen through the cracks of the mental-health system."